History YMMV / SlumdogMillionaire

* HypeBacklash: It won Best Picture at the Academy Awards, which fueled all sorts of complaints about it. Western audiences disliked it for simplistic drama and (for them) unexpectable Bollywood cliches, which seemed out of place in awarded film. Western Bollywood fans started to complain about truly annoying NewbieBoom and suddenly the entire genre being viewed through poor imitation. Indian audiences hated it with passion for the PovertyPorn angle and Oscar only made things worse. And Bollywood actors had various, often personal reason to trash it anyway.

* TheWoobie: Jamal. Because after seeing [[JustForPun how much crap he's gone through]], you can't help but want to give him a big hug.

* MoralEventHorizon: Maman and his gang blinding little boys to become beggars and prostituting underage girls is the most obvious one. He is like the darkest interpretation of TheFagin from ''Literature/OliversTwist''.

* MemeticMutation: Anil Kapoor's pronounciation of the word, "Millionaire."
* MoralEventHorizon: Maman and his gang blinding little boys to become beggars and prostituting underage girls is the most obvious one. He is like the darkest intepretation of TheFagin from Oliver Twist.

* AmericansHateTingle: India did ''not'' take kindly to this film for having needlessly glamourised [[StopBeingStereotypical negative]] [[SimSimSalabim stereotypes]] about their country and the city of Mumbai and for portraying India as more impoverished than it actually is. In fact, many Indians were dismayed that Slumdog actually won so many awards.

* NauseaFuel: How to leave an outhouse over a river with only two exits, a jammed door and... guess it.
** If it makes you feel any better, the actor was actually jumping in a substance made of peanut butter and chocolate (basically a liquid Reese's cup).

* PovertyPorn: From the left to right, the film has been accused of this.

** Prem Kumar, the game show host crossed it when he tried to cheat and even lied about Jamal and had him tortured for supposedly "cheating". The policemen themselves qualify for torturing someone on hours without proof and even if they were right it was DisproportionateRetribution.

* HypeBacklash: It won Best Picture at the Academy Awards, which fuelled all sorts of complaints about it. Western audiences disliked it for simplistic drama and (for them) unexpectable Bollywood cliches, which seemed out of place in awarded film. Western Bollywood fans started to complain about truly annoying NewbieBoom and suddenly the entire genre being viewed through poor imitation. Indian audiences hated it with passion for the PovertyPorn angle and Oscar only made things worse. And Bollywood actors had various, often personal reason to trash it anyway.

* HypeBacklash: It won Best Picture at the Academy Awards, which fuelled all sorts of complains about it. Western audiences disliked it for simplistic drama and (for them) unexpectable Bollywood cliches, which seemed out of place in awarded film. Western Bollywood fans started to complain about truly annoying NewbieBoom and suddenly the entire genre being viewed through poor imitation. Indian audiences hated it with passion for the PovertyPorn angle and Oscar only made things worse. And Bollywood actors had various, often personal reason to trash it anyway.

* EarWorm: "JAI HO! (''[[GratuitousForeignLanguage Baila, baila!]]'')". The equally Oscar-nominated [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHUQht1HRmY O... Saya]]" (featuring M.I.A) as well.

** This doesn't come out of nowhere quite as much if you're familiar with Bollywood films, which use "everybody dances" endings often. If you aren't, it will probably just invoke a FlatWhat.

* AmericansHateTingle: India did ''not'' take kindly to this film for having needlessly glamourised [[StopBeingStereotypical negative]] [[SimSimSalabim stereotypes]] about their country and the city of Mumbai and for portraying India as more impoverished than it actually is. In fact, many Indians were dismayed that Slumdog actually won so many awards, to the point where so much as ''mentioning'' the movie can qualify as a BerserkButton to them.

* HypeBacklash: It won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. And that is all we shall say on the matter.

** Prem Kumar, the game show host crossed it when he tried to cheat and even lied about Jamal and had him tortured for supposedly "cheating". On that matter the police themselves qualify for torturing someone on hours without proof and even if they were right it was DisproportionateRetribution.

* [[AmericansHateTingle Indians Hate Slumdog Millionare]]: India did ''not'' take kindly to this film for having needlessly glamourised [[StopBeingStereotypical negative]] [[SimSimSalabim stereotypes]] about their country and the city of Mumbai and for portraying India as more impoverished than it actually is. In fact, many Indians were dismayed that Slumdog actually won so many awards, to the point where so much as ''mentioning'' the movie can qualify as a BerserkButton to them.

* CompleteMonster: Slum boss Maman is [[FauxAffablyEvil charming, friendly and cheerful]] to orphans he meets, offering the young Jamal and Salim [[BaitTheDog ice cold coca colas]] and offering them a place to stay. It is revealed Maman takes in orphans to use as a begging ring for him, and the kids are just free labor. Even worse, cripples earn more money, so when children display good singing talent, Maman has them blinded with acid to increase the revenue. When Salim and Jamal escape, Maman captures their friend Latika and several years later gives her the name 'Cherry' while intending to use her as a child prostitute. The only reason he hasn't done so already is as a virgin, she's worth a great deal of money. When he finds the young Salim and Jamal, he immediately plans to kill them, declaring "Maman never forgets."

* AmericansHateTingle: And Indians hate Slumdog Millionaire the same way, for having needlessly glamourised negative stereotypes about their country, or even a prominent city. In fact, many Indians were dismayed that Slumdog actually won so many awards.

* MoralEventHorizon: Where to start? Maman and his gang blinding little boys to become beggars and prostituting underage girls is the most obvious one. He is like the darkest intepretation of TheFagin from Oliver Twist.

* HypeAversion[=/=]HypeBacklash: It won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. And that is all we shall say on the matter.
* MemeticMutation: See BecauseDestinySaysSo and SayMyName.
** Also, Anil Kapoor's pronounciation of the word, "Millionaire."

* MoralEventHorizon: Where to start? Maman and his gang blinding little boys to become beggars and prostituting underage girls is the most obvious one. He is like "an even darker" version of Fagin from Oliver Twist.

** If it makes you feel any better, the actor was actually jumping in a substance made of peanut butter and chocolate (basically a liquid Reece's cup).

* TearJerker: The ending. But in a ''good'' way.